14 Communications No. 34 “postal article” means any article in the course of transmission by post, including any letter, postcard, newspaper, book, document, pamphlet, pattern, sample packet, small packet, parcel package, or any other article tendered for dispatch, or specified as a postal article by the Universal Postal Union or in a postal licence; “postal services licensee” means any entity licensed to provide postal services; “postal tariff” means any charges raised by the postal services licensee for the provision of postal services; “public content service” means any content service provided by the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation, or any other public state-owned enterprise holding a broadcasting service licence to this purpose; “public postal service” means any postal service provided by the Malawi Posts Corporation, or other state-owned enterprise holding a postal services licence; “scarce resources” means finite resources required in the operation of electronic communication, including radio spectrum, numbers and rights of ways; “subscriber” means a person having a contract with an authorized provider of a communications service in order to obtain any communications services; “subscription content service” means a content service provided under a subscription contract; “television content service” means a content service consisting of the transmission of visual images or other visible signals, with or without accompanying sounds, where the visual images are such that their sequences are seen as moving pictures; “terminal equipment” means any electronic communications equipment connected at the terminal end of a public electronic communications network for the purpose of sending and receiving network services to and from end users; “type approval” is a procedure where the Authority certifies the acceptability of an electronic equipment or product based on conformity of the equipment or the product to minimum regulatory technical and safety requirement before the equipment or the product is used; “universal access” means access to publicly available communications services;